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Let's open Lightroom.

Import those photos into our catalogs and begin editing.

As you can see here, I have all the photos from today.

I'm going to go to develop,

and let's start with this picture.

Some of the food prep shots on that slate table outside under the umbrella,

the nice flat lighting will make it a little easier to

get some satisfying, flat, colorful images.

I'm going to use a preset.

If you're not familiar with Photoshop Lightroom presets,

they are criteria or saved adjustments that you can import from online,

or create yourself, or import and then edit, whichever you wish.

I'm going to go with this preset that I've created here called Brighten and Warm.

Brighten up this image of steak and watermelon,

and I'm going to bring in a little more warmth up here on the top right.

Lower the highlights, that white plate kind of throwing us off, a little too bright.

Keep exposure down just a smidge.

Up the contrast, make it pop.

A little clarity, make the details come out,

and I'd like to have a clean image.

I like to have the least amount of distracting elements in the photos I can.

So, I'm going to crop and take out the stone ground from beneath the table, just here.

Also getting in closer on food shots,

especially when colorful like this,

often does make it more marketable. There we have it.

And there's a grease stain here,

I'm going to use the spot removal tool to get rid of,

and vuala, works quite well.

Don't always have to take the picture into Photoshop, and we're good.

I like this one. It's pretty simple.

We got some reds,

some detailed meat that has yet to be cooked,

watermelon, and a knife.

Pretty usable. Now, let's go on to the next image.

This shot, a little more wider precooked food shot.

I'll use a different preset here,

one that brings out the contrast,

a little moodier, really colorful vibrant preset,

and a little too much.

So, I'm going to bring up the exposure a bit.

Bring out the shadows a little.

Warm it up a little more,

there's a lot of blue going on.

Want to make it summary and warm as I can.

Bring down the whites a little to compensate for those white plates.

Up the clarity just a hair,

and that looks pretty good.

Now, what if I want to take these edits and copy them to

another photo knowing that the photos have very similar content and similar writing?

I can do that, no problem.

I would right click on the thumbnail down here at the bottom.

Go to Develop Settings,

Copy Settings, choose what I would like,

all good, and copy.

Now, we can go to another photo.

Here we have it. Just a hair wider.

Even more food, more stuff on the table.

Some drinks in there and I can right-click on that photo thumbnail,

go to Develop Settings,

and paste, and there we have it.

The same settings apply to this photo.

It's a little brighter but it looks very similar.

Now, one thing I want to change about this photo.

Again, I don't really like the distracting stone elements on the side.

There's also some stains on the table.

So, I'm going to actually take this one into Photoshop and make a few adjustments there.

I would right-click on that thumbnail again,

go Edit In, Photoshop CC 2015.

Now, if you get the Photoshop CC package,

it's called the photographer's package that includes

both Lightroom and Photoshop and that's

a pretty good deal for people who want

all the editing power you generally need, all in one place.

So, now that we're in here,

I'm going to go up here.

I'm going to do Polygonal Lasso Tool.

Actually, I'm going to crop in a little first.

I want to get this plate all the way at the edge of the frame. There we go.

I'll go back to that Lasso Tool and highlight or select this area down here.

Now, I'm going to use predictive content aware fill to fill that for me.

It uses the information around

the highlighted area to

predict what it thinks you want there and it works pretty well most of the time.

Press OK, and as you see there, it's worked quite well here.

Now to the top.

Work our way around this vase,

delete, enter.

That's not always perfect,

as you can see here, it's copied some of the vase.

So, I'm going to leave it selected.

I'm going to go to the clone stamp tool.

I'm going to hold down the option key to define the source to copy.

Do it up here, give me plenty of space,

and draw in using this information up here, down here.

Fortunately, this slate table is consistent throughout,

so it makes this really easy,

and Command D for deselect, and there we have it.

Now, maybe you want to get rid of a few of these stains.

You can use this Content-aware to lasso these stains,

delete, enter, works pretty well.

I'm going to go ahead and file,

save this image at this point,

and it will take it right back to Lightroom where we started,

right there with my collection.

Perfect. Now, let's go on and edit some more.

I think that's good on the food prep scene and maybe we'll move on to a barbecue shot.

Let's see. This looks usable. How about this one?

All right. We can do a bright and warm here again,

it's looking really dark.

Fortunately, I shot it at a lower SO of 200.

You can shoot even lower if you'd like,

which gives you lots of space and makes your files more malleable.

Also, which helps is shooting in raw format.

You can see down here the extension is.ARW which is Sony's raw format.

I'm going to bring in a little bit more warmth.

Bring down the highlights,

so we have some overexposed highlight areas like those peppers.

Bring up the contrast,

a little bit of clarity,

and the shadows, and the overall exposure,

and that looks pretty good.

Now, it looks quite thrown off here.

It's a weird angle,

so I'm going to go down and use this really handy tool,

the Upright tool, which is fairly new in Lightroom.

I'm going to press Auto and it will automatically use the lines

in the photograph to predict where you would like it,

and it's done a really good job here,

I think this looks pretty good.

I could leave it as it is,

kind of like the garnish and the corner.

I could crop it down,

get a little closer,

put a little more emphasis on the hand

and the tool that he's using, and there we have it.

A pretty good, I'll be a generic, barbecuing shot.

Now, we'll go on to another type of photo or maybe we'll get one here.

One of Chris holding this food that he's prepared for us.

Looks pretty good as it is.

You could really just brighten it,

do some contrast and color.

I'm going to, just for consistency's sake,

use one of these two presets.

I think that looks pretty good,

pretty bright in summary,

very cheerful, by warming up just a little more.

Crop tool, and change the angle,

and make it a little straighter.

Get rid of some of these distracting elements down at the bottom, and there we go.

It's a pretty good shot.

Kind of shows summer fashion.

It's got some bright colors,

some good patterns on.

It's very relevant to the fashion of today really,

and of course the barbecue action.

So, we have a little bit of multiple marketable qualities in this photo.